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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Oct 9 11:10:23 2015, in response to Re: What If The Dodgers had not moved from Brooklyn?, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Oct 9 10:34:46 2015. Here is what I think would have happened if O’Malley wasn’t such a selfish prick and was willing to buy his own property or play in a city-owned ballpark:Dodgers stay in Brooklyn, Giants move to Minneapolis, becoming the Minnesota Giants, Washington Senators move to LA, are renamed the LA Angels. New York is not lost to the NL, so the Continental League is never proposed and consequently MLB expansion is delayed and does not take place in 1961/62. It happens anyway because there was nevertheless pressure for it, so here is what I think the first expansion teams would have been: First Round: AL: Washington Senators San Francisco Team NL: Houston Astros Los Angeles Second Team Second Round (equivalent to 1969 expansion): NL: Montreal Expos San Diego Padres AL: Seattle Pilots/Milwaukee Brewers Kansas City Royals I don’t agree with your theory that MLB would have allowed the A’s to change leagues in 1969. The more likely scenario is they would have told Finley to pound sand and prevented him from moving, which they did earlier in the decade when he tried to move to Atlanta, Louisville or DFW. That’s why I think that DFW would have been the A’s destination, since the Washington Senators v2.0 moved there in 1972. This leaves the fate of the Washington Senators 2.0 up in the air. I think there are too many possibilities to come up with a definitive answer. |
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